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2019, Speculum
This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one of the world's richest yet hitherto understudied legal traditions. In the first study of its kind, Chitwood explores and reinterprets the seminal legal-historical events of the Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty, including the re-appropriation and refashioning of the Justinianic legal corpus and the founding of a law school in Constantinople. During this last phase of Byzantine secular law, momentous changes in law and legal culture were underway: the patronage of the elite was reflected in the legal system, theological terms from Orthodox Christianity entered the vocabulary of Byzantine jurisprudence, and private legal collections of uncertain origins began to circulate in manuscripts alongside official redactions of Justinianic law. By using the heuristic device of exploring legal culture, this book examines the interplay in law between the Roman political heritage, Orthodox Christianity and Hellenic culture.
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After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the ties of Italy with the power, the culture and the East law, with several discontinuities, continued for more than five centuries. The events related to this rapport present many elements of complexity and show major signs of interference. It is important to note that this enduring connection, following the re-conquest of the territories of our Country, allowed the propagation of the Justinian Corpus Juris and the post-Justinian legal production in the high Middle Age. Although at different times, it encouraged the birth of various law’s study and teaching centers in Italy. It is true that between civil and religious conflicts, between Lombard supremacy and arab invasions, between the Papal State and local lords in search of autonomy, the Byzantine imperial authority was forced to reduce considerably its sphere of influence in Italy mainly to focus, from the IX century, on the southern regions. It was especially with the advent of Emper...
Title: Classical Literature in Byzantine Legal Sources Abstract: Did the emperor, the law professor and the judge in Byzantium use the Classics and if so, how and why? In this paper, I will focus on testimonies of ‘classicising learning’ and references to Classical literature in Byzantine legislation and jurisprudence, as well as in Byzantine legal sources reflecting classroom teaching. For more information about the Paixue symposium, see link: http://paixue.shca.ed.ac.uk/node/12
In this paper I try to demonstrate how Byzantine law, a subject odd and exotic at first sight provides a piece of the puzzle that helps us to complete the big picture, the origins of our European legal identity. I refer to some concrete examples of legal interaction between the Byzantine and the Western side of Europe in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries – a period in which the ius commune began to take shape – and explain the method I used step by step, the specific challenges I confronted in the sources and the outcomes of this approach. The comparative legal study of documents of the medieval period at a European level can help us to answer the question whether, long before the making of today's Europe, today's European countries were already connected by common legal forms.
Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies Plenary Sessions
Linking Fields, Approaches, and Methods in Byzantine Legal Studies2022 •
In this paper I will be presenting the means and methodology that the researcher of Byzantine law has at their disposal to investigate their research subject. I aim through this presentation to address the question as to whether the study of Byzantine law comes under the umbrella of the humanities, as does history, or the social sciences, such as Law. Furthermore, the relevance that the study of Byzantine law has today will be discussed here. That is to say, if its relevance is exhausted through the reconstitution of a legal culture, or if in itself it may be of use as a science to help resolve contemporary legal issues.
Buddhist Studies Review
The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual. Vesna A. Wallace2002 •
The Anthropocene Review
Geomorphic changes and socio-environmental impacts of recent sand mining in the Sakarya River, NW Turkey2023 •
J. Andrzejowski, M. Pruska, J. Schuster (ed.), Z głębin czasu. Opowieść o pewnej rybie / From the Depth of Time. A Tale about a Fish (Lębork.Łódź-Schleswig-Warszawa 2021), 26-35.
Luksus dla bogaczy - rzymskie szkla w starozytnej Polsce / Luxury for the Rich - Roman Glass in Ancient Poland2021 •
ZPE 207, 239-241
DATIERUNG NACH KONSULN UND IIVIRI IN EINEM TEXT AUS CASINUM2018 •
Scientific Reports
Tooth oxygen isotopes reveal Late Bronze Age origin of Mediterranean fish aquaculture and trade2018 •
Public Knowledge Project PLN
Macchine per leggere: promuovere la lettura con il distant reading2023 •
Opiniães – Revista dos Alunos de Literatura Brasileira
Agô!2022 •
Philippiniana Sacra
Theological Constants of Justice in Catholic Social Teaching2008 •
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